America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

I entered this glam world by luck. I wanted to join dancing classes since I was a child, but my parents never gave me the permission to do so, as no one in our family had ever chosen this path. Fortunately, I got my first break in a reality show easily due to my dance skills, so that way I have been lucky.

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

I definitely had a weird thing of being attracted to older men. Never my family friends, never my dad's friends.

I put family and country first.